Different names, one thread

You may have arrived here through a specific door: a relationship that left you doubting your own reality, a child who has been turned against you, a body that will not stop bracing for danger. The names differ. The underlying injury is usually the same; a moment, or a long season, when the people or systems meant to keep you safe became the source of threat, or when staying connected meant losing yourself.

That is what I mean by trauma. Not only a single event, but a state your nervous system, your relationships, and your sense of self adapt to in order to survive.

How I understand trauma

Trauma is rarely held in one place. It touches several layers of a life at once:

• Your nervous system — a body that learned to stay in alarm, or in shutdown, long after the danger passed.

• Your attachment — the early blueprint of whether others are safe and whether you are worthy, carried quietly into every relationship since.

• Your sense of self — the erosion of worth, agency, and the right to your own reality, often through criticism, control, or being made responsible too young.

• Your relationships — patterns of over-responsibility, fawning, or distance that once kept you safe and now keep you stuck.

• Your family system — conflict and coercion that organise a whole family around survival instead of connection.

• What passes to your children — because a regulated parent is a child's first place of safety, your own healing is where difficult patterns can stop.
  
  

Naming these layers is not academic. Understanding what is happening in your own body and history is, in itself, part of how safety returns.

How the work moves

Healing is not a straight line, and I will never promise a tidy ending. But the work tends to move in three honest stages: first, safety — steadying the nervous system and establishing real ground to stand on; then understanding and grief — making sense of what happened and mourning what was lost; then reconnection — rebuilding a self you trust, relationships you can stay inside without disappearing, and, where it matters, a steadier presence for your children.

An integrative approach, chosen for you

I do not work from a single model. I draw deliberately on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Interpersonal Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Family Therapy, and relational and trauma-focused approaches — and what guides the choice is never my preference, but the complexity of your particular situation. My training in counselling and in the management of psychological trauma at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens underpins this, alongside ongoing study and specialisation.

The result is care that is structured and clinically grounded, but never cold — trauma-informed, scientifically careful, and free of the sensationalism this field too often carries.

Beginning

Meaningful change does not come from pressure or ready-made answers. It comes through safety, clarity, and the right relational conditions — and the courage to look honestly at what needs to change, alongside the right person to support you.

I work online and in person, in Greek and English. Wherever you are in the world, we can begin with a first conversation, with no commitment beyond seeing whether this feels right.

Take the First Step

The first diagnostic session is free.
No commitment required
— only your wish to talk.